Doctor Muskiday’s latest crisis runs screaming through the lab — but the real problem is waiting quietly in a cage.
Project SMILE's emotion cloud chaos continues to spiral out of control as Holo-Clone Miss Match discovers that Doctor Muskiday’s “bad news” isn’t a situation… it’s a somebody.
Transcript
Panel 1:
Narration: Shortly afterwards… in Doctor Muskiday’s underground lab…
Doctor Muskiday is shown running through his laboratory, shouting “Oh, no! Oh, no!Oh, no!Oh, no! No! No! No! No! Oh, no!”
Holo-Clone Miss Match, as he rushes past: “Musky, darling, what’s wrong??”
Panel 2:
Off-panel voice: “Him? Oh, he got some bad news.”
Panel 3:
Holo-Clone Miss Match, walking to the small cage that held the lad rat at the beginning of the story: “Really? What’s the bad news?”
Panel 4:Rat, with a pink cloud covering his entire head: “I am.”
Alt Text
Four-panel “Evil Inc” comic set inside Doctor Muskiday’s underground laboratory. In the large top panel, Doctor Muskiday runs frantically through the lab shouting “Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! No! No! No!” Holo-Clone Miss Match, wearing a tight white blouse and maroon pants, stands in the center asking, “Musky, darling, what’s wrong??” In the second panel, an unseen speaker says, “Him? Oh, he got some bad news.” In the third panel, Holo-Clone Miss Match approaches a small animal cage and asks, “Really? What’s the bad news?” In the final panel, a lab rat sits inside the cage with a large glowing pink emotion cloud completely covering its head and replies, “I am.”